What percentage of secondary school pupils were excluded in the academic years 2023-24 and 2024-25?
Answered by Cabinet Secretary for Education
| Answered on 02/01/2026
0.7% of pupils in primary schools received a fixed-term exclusion and 0.01% received a permanent exclusion in 2023-24.
6.2% of pupils in secondary schools received a fixed-term exclusion and 0.21% received a permanent exclusion in 2023-24.
See Permanent and fixed-term exclusions from schools: September 2023 to August 2024 (provisional).
Data for 2024-25 will be published in autumn 2026.